Commvault Systems, Inc.
QUERY CACHING DURING BACKUP WITHIN AN ENTERPRISE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Abstract:

Certain embodiments disclosed herein reduce or eliminate a communication bottleneck at the storage manager by reducing communication with the storage manager while maintaining functionality of an information management system. In some implementations, a client queries a storage manager to obtain information for enabling a secondary storage job (e.g., a backup or restore) from the storage manager. The query response can be stored at a cache local to the client. The client may then access the query response from the cache for subsequent jobs or tasks without communicating with the storage manager reducing the frequency of communication with the storage manager.